Shane Milton, aged 23, who was living in Exmouth at the time he offended, started sending sexual messages to the 13-year-old schoolgirl within minutes of her accepting his Facebook friend request and carried on despite her telling him her age on six different occasions. Milton has been sent on a sex offenders’ treatment course.

Dr Ian Logan, aged 71, from Brixington, Exmouth, will this month travel to China to The Institute of Zoology - one the world’s most prestigious scientific research centres – to receive an award because Ian’s research of the Zika virus has been officially adopted by The World Health Organisation,